EU Refugee crisis:
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crisis in the Med and inside the EU: Daily
news (updated through the day), commentaries and official documentsTurkey steps
up preparations for receiving migrants returned from Greece

A camp for 5,000 people
is reportedly being built in western Turkey as the country apparently
prepares to receive 72,000 migrants to be returned from Greece
on Monday 4 April as part of the EU-Turkey deal.

We are conducting
work for the construction of a camp with a capacity of 5,000
people to host the refugees in our country under humanitarian
conditions and to provide for their needs, Kinik told Anadolu
Agency."

And: Turkey
prepares to receive 72,000 immigrants from Greece(Middle East Monitor, link): "Turkey is
preparing to receive 72,000 illegal immigrants who have been
deported from Greece. Turkish Akhbar Turkiya newspaper reported
that the Immigration Department will construct a centre for the
refugees in the Delek region in Izmir during the next ten days.

The immigrants will
be relocated inside camps in the Greek island of Medley before
being transferred to Delek from 4 April, the paper reported.

Sources in the Turkish
Refugees Department said the immigrants will be offered identity
cards and will have their fingerprints taken within 24 hours
of their arrival, they will then be able to stay in the camps
or join their relatives in Turkey."

EU-TURKEY:
Returns under "one-for-one" plan to start on 4 April
as evidence emerges of forced returns from Turkey to Syria

The European Commission
foresees returns from Greece to Turkey under the controversial
"one-for-one" plan starting on Monday 4 April, if changes
to Greek and Turkish legislation can be rushed through by then.
The credibility of claims that Turkey is a safe third country
has been challenged yet again, this time with evidence gathered
by Amnesty International that refugees have been forcibly returned
from Turkey to Syria. Yesterday, press reports claimed that the
Turkish military were shooting dead people attempting to enter
Turkey from Syria.

Returns to Turkey from Greece through EUs
1:1 scheme to commence April 4th (New Europe, link): "The European Commission
has said that returns from Greece to Turkey will commence on
April 4. Greece has tabled the draft bill which will allow for
the implementation of the 1:1 bilateral return scheme between
Greece and Turkey. Monday remains a reachable target date for
the new deal implementation kick-start, said the
European Commissions spokesperson for Migration, Home Affairs
and Citizenship, Natasha Bertaud. However, if national legislation
does not change until Monday, the deal wont be implemented
on Monday.

In terms of the necessary
legislation changes in Turkey, EU sources point at a meeting
of the Turkish side with the Greek side under the EU coordinator
of the EU-Turkey statement, Maarten Verwey, that took place on
Wednesday. The changes will be made in time, added
the EU source, repeating that for the time being, the 1:1 scheme
is only applied to Syrians under the need of international protection.
Turkey seems to be under pressure by the European Commission,
in order to expand temporary protection that covers Syrians,
to other nationalities, such as Afghans that originate from conflict
zones."

A brief overview of the
proposed new Greek asylum law can be found here: Greek
Parliament Prepares New Law on Asylum (News That Moves, link): "Greece is preparing
legal amendments needed to implement the EU-Turkey Agreement
of March 19.

A new law Common
procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection
was tabled on Wednesday night in the Greek parliament.

The law is expected
to be discussed today [31 March] and voted tomorrow [1 April]
by the Greek parliament."

Amid
Their Own Crisis, Greeks Stand by Refugees (Refugees Deeply, link): "A
product of Greeces social solidarity movement that arose
in the aftermath of a debilitating economic crisis, Platanos
is a self-organized Greek group that has been assisting refugees
in Greece. As major NGOs pull out from Lesbos to avoid complicity
in the mass expulsion of refugees under the E.U.-Turkey deal,
Platanos will stay put"

The number of attacks
was revealed following a data request made to the Interior Ministry
by the Green party justice spokesperson Albert Steinhauser.

Incidents took place
in all but one of the countrys provinces, with Burgenland
witnessing no attacks and Carinthia seeing the most with seven."

Austrian etiquette explained to refugees (The Local, link): " Newly
arrived asylum seekers in Austria are being given a helping hand
to navigate their new home by a pocket book explaining the do's
and don'ts of Austrian life.

The book - which was
produced by the Red Cross with the support of state broadcaster
ORF - explains some of the etiquettes and cultural habits of
Austrians."

The United Nations repeated
its demands for legal safeguards to be put in place before refugees
are returned to Turkey warning that conditions in Greece - where
more than 5,000 refugees are now corralled in holding camps on
the Greek islands - are rapidly deteriorating."

Hungary FM: Unchecked Migration Increases Risk
of Terror(Foreign Policy,
link): "Last September, as tens of thousands of desperate
migrants and refugees flooded into Hungary from Serbia, Hungarian
police who were deployed to the border refused to let many of
them in, greeting them instead with tear gas and water cannons
to push them back from where they had come.

That use of force was
widely criticized: Human rights groups condemned it as a violation
of Budapests international obligations to asylum-seekers,
and neighboring Austria likened Prime Minister Viktor Orbans
policies to Nazism.

But seven months and
two terrorist attacks on European soil later, Hungarian officials
feel vindicated by their tough stance on migration. Now, they
say, Budapest was wrongly chastised for sounding the alarm bell
on the dangers of unregulated mass migration months ago.

In an exclusive interview
with Foreign Policy in Washington on Thursday, Foreign Minister
Peter Szijjártó said Hungary was right to look
with suspicion at the masses of people demanding entry from Serbia
 especially in the wake of this months terrorist
attacks in Brussels."

Minister Waszczykowski
added that the country will thoroughly check the identity of
asylum seekers and try to ascertain that applicants are not a
threat to national security.

Speaking to national
broadcaster TVP, Waszczykowski said: We declared that we
will closely select refugees. International law applies to us
and we reiterate that we will closely observe it.

"If we find refugees
who will document their identity, and local authorities are able
to document that they do not threaten Poland, and [the refugees]
want to come to Poland, then we will consider their applications
to stay in the country."

We need to take
our country back. Our aim is to cleanse our nation free of all
immigrants. What we do out on the ocean is just a small step
to stop more the mass immigration we have faced for decades,
he told MailOnline.

While he is heavily
in debt and unemployed, Dennis is one of the few members of the
group without a criminal record according to local media reports.
At least 11 members have reportedly been convicted for weapons
offences and several violent crimes.

He dismisses allegations
the organisation has neo-Nazi sympathies despite also admitting
that of course they are in touch with the Soldiers
of Odin  a gang of violent white supremacist vigilantes
patrolling Finland's streets to prevent migrant sex attacks."

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